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In summary, this book provides professors and students an invaluable primary source for topics related to world history, Middle East history, or Asian history. The colloquial language has also opened it up to a broader audience who are interested in the cultural exchanges and trade networks in the old world before the Great Discovery. - World History Bulletin

"In summary, this book provides professors and students an invaluable primary source for topics related to world history, Middle East history, or Asian history. The colloquial language has also opened it up to a broader audience who are interested in the cultural exchanges and trade networks in the old world before the Great Discovery."" - World History Bulletin"

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Ibn Battuta (1304-1377) was one of the first great travellers in world history – a century before Marco Polo. He was a scholar of Islamic law and found employment all over the Muslim world as a traveling judge or advisor to the rulers. He travelled to medieval Ghana, Mecca, India, and China and wrote his travel stories after his return to his native Tangier, Morocco, which were widely translated numerous times from Arabic. Noel King was a modern-day travelling scholar. Born and educated in British India, he taught first at Indian universities, before moving to East Africa, where he taught at universities in Kenya and Uganda before his final appointment in the 1960s as Chair of the Religion Department at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

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